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...names for Mooseheart staff members-sluefoot, screw, night-caller, supreme being, walking tree-have died. An increase of tolerance has presumably caused the disappearance of such words as fish and fisheater (both meaning Catholic), and aquarium (a Catholic priest's home). Also gone are smutch (sneak-out), squirrel (psychologist, i.e., one who looks for "nuts...
...fortnight ago at Greenwood, Miss. Five thousand Delta planters and cotton pickers packed the American Legion ball park for the fourth annual running of the event. The card consisted of five heats and a sweepstakes. Stubborn Delta plow mules, bedecked for superstition's sake with turkey feathers, squirrel tails and paper festoons, were mounted by Negro plowboys in overalls and gaudy silk shirts. Proceeds were earmarked for Mississippi's underprivileged preschool children...
...chillers overcrowd the screen with werewolves or explain away all supernatural antics as the deliberate hocus-pocus of a mad scientist, estate-grabber or Axis agent. The Uninvited blends the everyday with the inexplicable, gets a lot of its best scares out of the everyday. The skittering of a squirrel across the drumhead floors of the vacant house suddenly gives vacancy a cold portentousness. The scraping of a wine glass against a table, during the seance, is more scary than the seance itself. The unexpected smashing of a window while you are watching a rather good Paramount ghost rasps...
After the Rabbit. Pale, soft, charming-and accurate- watercolors graced the pages of this story. Beatrix Potter had long been an accomplished amateur artist when her book appeared. The Tale of Peter Rabbit was followed by 21 other children's books-tales of Squirrel Nutkin, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tittlemouse, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher. Potterites of all ages had their favorites, but connoisseurs would probably agree that the masterpiece was The Tailor of Gloucester...
...Power. De Luce found the Partisan movement assuming the proportions of military big business. "Until now [they] have relied for success on their own guerrilla skill. . . . [But now] there are more new soldiers than rifles-even counting the long-barreled old squirrel shooters of Balkan War vintage-and there is a job to finish that only planes and armored vehicles...